James McQueen | Shit Happens Protest Art The date embedded in the

The date embedded in the title gives the work its historical anchor: love wins

the sculpture takes this linguistic proposition into three-dimensional space — the basketball as a carrier of both the sporting aspiration and the artistic declaration

Written by John Lennon for the 1969 Abbey Road album

The gold variant carries the palette of aspiration and the prize worth striving for

The Future Is Yours is among his most directly optimistic works

James McQueen | Shit Happens Protest Art The date embedded in theJames McQueen Shit Happens (2024) Limited edition Shit Happens is one of the oldest and most philosophically precise pieces of vernacular wisdom the acknowledgment that bad things occur without cause, without justice, and without the possibility of adequate response. McQueen's 2024 version brings his layered, lacquered technique to this observation with the formal authority of his Penguin book cover aesthetic: the phrase that has always been on bumper